Chapter Two. Producing Multi-Sited Comparability

Sørensen, Estrid

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“…We do not want to overstretch the comparison and emphasis on commonalities between the two at this point. However, we wanted to link the two constructivist methodological propositions that explore new ways of comparison—those of Schmidt (, ) and Sørensen (, )—with older methods (Bereday, ; Berry, ; Hilker, ) based on realist notions that we discuss in the following to broaden the debate on comparative methodology.…”

Section: Inverting the Conventional Sequence Of Comparison: Comparatimentioning

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“…Like Schmidt, Sørensen (, ) in her likewise constructivist perspective suggests inverting the standard process of comparison and treating the tertium comparationis as a result and not as a precondition. She calls this approach process‐oriented comparability.…”

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“…Her starting point is the observation that the ethnographic method and comparative method based on a tertium comparationis represent two poles of a dichotomy: the former implies ‘inside views, process orientation and mobility’, and it ‘takes an ex‐post approach and aims at producing inside descriptions’ of case specificities. The latter favours ‘outside views, result orientation and immobility’, and it takes ‘an ex‐ante approach and is oriented towards producing an (at least partly) outside description by reducing the compared field sites’ specificities’ (Sørensen, , pp. 43, 47).…”

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“…Both basically propose an inversion of the standard comparative process (defining comparative criteria—comparing cases—denoting differences/similarities). Sørensen (, ) additionally suggests a rearrangement of the spatial constellation. The plan here is to connect their propositions to comparative higher education research that also uses many other methodological approaches than ethnography and that also utilises a range of qualitative data (e.g., interviews, documents and website material) and various methods of data analysis (coding, qualitative content analysis and a variety of reconstructive analyses—grounded theory methodology, narrative analysis, sequential analysis and the documentary method) (Tight, , ; Wells, Kolek, Williams, & Saunders, ).…”

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Between context and comparability: Exploring new solutions for a familiar methodological challenge in qualitative comparative research

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Nokkala

Diogo

2020

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Finding the balance between adequately describing the uniqueness of the context of studied phenomena and maintaining sufficient common ground for comparability and analytical generalisation has widely been recognised as a key challenge in international comparative research. Methodological reflections on how to adequately cover context and comparability have extensively been discussed for quantitative survey or secondary data research. In addition, most recently, promising methodological considerations for qualitative comparative research have been suggested in comparative fields related to higher education. The article’s aim is to connect this discussion to comparative higher education research. Thus, the article discusses recent advancements in the methodology of qualitative international comparative research, connects them to older analytical methods that have been used within the field in the 1960s and 1970s, and demonstrates their analytical value based on their application to a qualitative small‐N case study on research groups in diverse organisational contexts in three country contexts.

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Section: Inverting the Conventional Sequence Of Comparison: Comparatimentioning

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Section: Inverting the Conventional Sequence Of Comparison: Comparatimentioning

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Section: Inverting the Conventional Sequence Of Comparison: Comparatimentioning

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Between context and comparability: Exploring new solutions for a familiar methodological challenge in qualitative comparative research

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2020

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“…(Marcus , 106ff) helps us to take a closer look at the efforts of actors to make the adaptation idea travel between various sites, and they allow us to understand the process of translation. Following a ‘thick comparison’ (Niewöhner and Scheffer ) these empirical accounts are then contrasted across sites (Sørensen ) to carve out variations in translating adaptation in different contexts. In the following section, we illustrate some of this ‘translation work’ with empirical findings from our ongoing research in East Africa.…”

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Translating the ‘adaptation to climate change’ paradigm: the politics of a travelling idea in Africa

Weisser

Bollig

Doevenspeck

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Geographical Journal

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In the past few years, adaptation to climate change has emerged as a dominant new theme in development politics, to an extent that it can almost be considered as a new development paradigm. Yet, this new paradigm and its effects are not unproblematic, as the empirical research in three East African countries presented in this article indicates. The article argues that the current transformation of environmental governance reflects not only climate change as such, but also – and perhaps even more so – the discourse of a changing climate and its effect on development politics. The empirical evidence shows that African farmers, politicians and government officials often respond to the new ‘adaptation paradigm’ more readily than to directly felt phenomena caused by a changing climate. We therefore argue that the ontology of the concept of adaptation to climate change needs to be readjusted. Epistemologically, our concern is to trace the discourse of adaptation to climate change across multiple sites, i.e. how it ‘travels’ between global epistemic communities and adaptation projects in developing countries. Drawing on actor‐network theory and its concept of translation, we provide an alternative view of adaptation to climate change by highlighting the contested and multi‐sited narratives and practices that bring adaptation into being.

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Standardizing the Context and Contextualizing the Standard: Translating PISA into PISA-D

Görur

Sørensen

Maddox

2019

Science, Numbers and Politics

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Chapter Two. Producing Multi-Sited Comparability

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Between context and comparability: Exploring new solutions for a familiar methodological challenge in qualitative comparative research

Between context and comparability: Exploring new solutions for a familiar methodological challenge in qualitative comparative research

Translating the ‘adaptation to climate change’ paradigm: the politics of a travelling idea in Africa

Standardizing the Context and Contextualizing the Standard: Translating PISA into PISA-D

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